Elie Wiesel's Faith In The Book Night

The Holocaust is a period in time were the Germans tried to get rid of the Jewish people. Hitler had sent the Jewish people to concentration camps, millions were killed and their bodies burned. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel talks about how he lived through the Holocaust and how ruthless the Nazi’s were. Elie’s struggle with his faith is an up and coming conflict in Night. At the beginning of the work, his faith in God is strong. When asked why he prays to God, he answers, “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” His view of God is confident, but his faith seems hopeless by his experience during the Holocaust.

Initially, Elie’s faith is a product of his studies in Jewish mysticism, which teach him that God is everywhere in the world, that nothing can survive without God, that in fact everything in the physical world is an “emanation,” or reflection, of the divine world. In other words, Elie has grown up believing that everything on Earth reflects God’s holiness and potency. His faith is grounded in the conception that God is everywhere, all the time, that his holiness physically contacts every aspect of his daily life. Since God is good, …show more content…
At certain moments during his first night at the camp ,Elie does battle with his faith, but his struggle should not be perplexed with a consummate abandonment of his faith. This struggle doesn’t decrease his faith in God,rather it is essential to the subsistence of that credence. When Moshe the Beadle is asked why he prays, he replies, “I pray to the God within me that He will give me the vigor to ask Him the right questions.” In other words, question his fundamental of the concept of faith in God. The Holocaust forces Elie to ask horrible questions about the nature of good and evil and about whether God subsists. But the very fact that he asks these questions reflects his commitment to